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News Digest Thursday, October 20,1994 Page 2 Terrorists sought by Arabs and Israelis TEL AVIV, Israel — The terror at - the edges of the quest for Middle East peace exploded Wednesday when a 1 bomb on a crowded city bus killed 22 J people and turned a bustling street I into a scene from a slaugh terhouse. The attack wounded 48 people. Police blamed it on a suicide bomber. Shouts of “Death to the Arabs!" were heard from bystanders on the seaside city’s main throughfare as severed arms and legs were gathered for burial, some from on top of four-story buildings. “It will end. It has to end. We will tear them to bits,” said President Ezcr Weizman. who called for “extraordi nary action” to root out Islamic ex tremists. Police suspected a West Bank fu gitive known as “The Engineer” of planning the attack, according to Is raeli news reports. The attack sparked anti-govern ment protests around the country and gave Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin little choice but to retaliate against extremist groups who oppose Israel \rab peace-making. In a television address, Rabin said le would seek legislative backing for 1 wide-ranging crackdown on the undamentalists, while at the same ime pressing ahead in peace talks vith the Palestine Liberation Orga lization. He stressed the need for a final political settlement that will divorce Israelis from the Palestinians of West Sank and Gaza Strip. “We need a separation between us ind the Palestinians, not just for days jut as a way of life,” Rabin said. President Clinton said he still vould attend the peace agreement :eremony on the Israel-Jordan bor der next week. Israel Radio said security would t>e tightened for Clinton’s visit. “It's like Russian roulette living in this country,” said Ronny Levy. ‘Every day someone else gets killed.” Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and West Bank after the mid-morning blast, claimed by the radical Islamic group Hamas in a statement read in Gaza mosques. Officials indicated Israel might respond with an unprecedented blow against Hamas’ armed wing, Izzcdinc al-Qassam. Rabin cut short a trip to London, rushing back to consult with secu rity officials and Cabinet ministers. Dozens of demonstrators outside his Defense Ministry office greeted him with chants of “Rabin Resign.” Angry demonstrators also gath ered at Dizengoff Square near the scene of the blast, in Jerusalem and throughout the country. The attack came as Israeli and PLO officials sat down in Cairo, Egypt, to talk about expanding the 5-inonth-old Gaza-Jericho autonomy to the rest of the West Bank. The talks broke off early Wednesday because of the blast. PLO leader Yassar Arafat said the Palestinians are “fully cooperating with the Israeli government to search and arrest the perpetrators.” There were no reports of arrests by Arafat’s police in Gaza. “Pushing forward with the peace process .. is the only way to respond to the enemies of peace who are get ting their support, their training and financing from well-known outside parties,” Arafat said, alluding to Iran’s fundamentalist government. A suspect in planning the bomb ing reportedly was Yehia Ayash, nick named “The Engineer,” from the West Bank village of Rafat. Ayash is a fugitive wanted for in volvement in three earlier bombings, including suicide attacks this year in the northern Israeli towns of Hadcra and Afula. Israel maintains the PLO has done too little to rein in Islamic groups that have shaken the fragile reconciliation declared in the Sept. 13, 1993, au tonomy pact. Arafat supporters say they want to avoid civil war in the autonomous areas. Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud, said such policies had opened the doors for terrorists to attack the heart of Israel from their -1 Judge asks for publicity delay LOS ANGELES — Concerns about pretrial publicity in the O.J. Simpson case mushroomed Wednesday as the judge asked broadcasters to hold up interviews with the author of a sensational new book about Simpson’s ex-wife, and defense lawyers asked that the trial be delayed and Simpson freed on bail. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito denied the defense request, turn ing aside arguments that the un usual amount of publicity in the ease required a delay and Simpson's release on bail. Earlier. Ito made public letters asking three broadcasters to delay interviews with Faye Rcsnick. whose book, “Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted,” alleges that Simpson stalked his ex-wife and threatened to kill her if she slept with another man. CNN agreed to delay broadcast of its Larry King interview, but CBS and Maury Povich said they would go ahead with their inter views as scheduled. In arguing against the defense motion for a trial delay and bail for Simpson, Deputy*District At torney Marcia Clark warned that Simpson could flee. Hamas: profile of terror The military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s terrorist bomb attack in central Tel Aviv. Last week, the group kidnapped and murdered an Israeli soldier in the West Bank. ft Hamas appeared for the first time In 1978, registering in Gaza as a non-profit organization called the Mujam’a ft It was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin after the start of the intifada, or uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ft Hamas’s ideology combines pan-Arab religious principles with Palestinian nationalistic aims, contending that the soil of all Palestine is a Wakf {Moslem holy property) that belongs to the Moslems forever. ft The organization’s ultimate goal is the formation of one great Islamic state. ft Their most revered strategic goal is the liberation of all of Palestine from the sea to the river. AP autonomous enclave in the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities said they be lieved a suicide bomber carrying up to 44 pounds of explosives boarded bus No. 5 as it headed up tree-lined Dizengoff Street, the city’s main shopping drag. Around 9 a.m., as the bus ap proached the cafe-lined central stretch parallel to the beachfront, the explosion ripped it apart. Shattered glass and pieces of metal mixed with pieces of flesh scattered in the street. Members of Israel’s official reli gious-run burial society labored for hours to remove dozens of bags of bodies and body parts from the scene. Hospital sources said two of the 48 wounded were in critical condi tion. Police said the 22 dead included nearly all the people on the No. 5 bus. Tel Aviv police commander Gabi Last said dozens of Arabs were de tained by police after the attack, in part to help them avoid lynchings. Nebraskan Editor JeffZeleny Night News Editors Scan Green 472-1786 Chris Main Managing Editor Angle Brunkow Doug Kouma Assoc. News Editors Jeffrey Robb Heather Lamps Rainbow Rowell Arl Director James Mehsling Opinion Page Editor Kara G. 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